On Sunday, August 11, Nathan Road resembled a war zone. Swarms of riot police fired rounds of tear gas at protesters, as anger over the extradition bill entered its tenth week of demonstrations. Exploding canisters and screams...

32-year-old Belgian photographer Matthieu Bout has been capturing miniature photography of Hong Kong’s streetscapes. “Hong Kong is simply breath-taking. I’ve never been in a metropolis this big, but it’s [scenery] I’m...

By Millie Fung Hong Kong is notorious for its high-stress education system. From as early as age 6, Hong Kong students have hours of homework to complete every day in order to keep up with the continuous assessments demanded by...

The Observatory raised the T8 storm signal at 1:40pm on Wednesday, as tropical cyclone Wipha approaches Hong Kong. “According to the present forecast track, Wipha will edge gradually closer to the coast of western Guangdong...

Australian universities are being investigated over their contracts with Chinese-state run Confucius Institutes, officials said on Thursday (Jul 25), amid fresh revelations over the scope of Beijing’s control of teaching in...

By Peter Stebbings with Kelly Wang Danielle Liu stares straight ahead, a book balanced precariously on her head, and carefully walks along a red line on the floor. The 10-year-old’s mother hopes the exercise will help make...

Nestled in the mist-covered foothills of Taiwan’s central mountain range, Ruan Chiao village is virtually devoid of young people, but artist Wu Tsun-hsien is coaxing the Instagram generation back by transforming local homes...

The head of the University of Hong Kong met with his critics again on Friday night, promising to appear at a public forum within a week. HKU’s president and vice-chancellor Zhang Xiang has been under fire for his response...

Hong Kong’s journalism watchdog has said the government has damaged freedom of expression in what they describe as one of the worst years in the city’s post-colonial history. The Hong Kong Journalists Association...

By Filip Noubel Understanding social issues in China is essential to the survival of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Thirty years ago, its survival was challenged as the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement picked up, and since...

A park in Tuen Mun will axe its self-entertainment zones after thousands took to the streets on Saturday to protest against the “dai mas” – women accused of disturbing the neighbourhood with singing and dancing...

By Eva Xiao The three men were so busy staging a fake car crash they failed to notice the very people they were trying to block: foreign journalists heading towards one of China’s notorious internment camps. A small truck...

Beneath the surface of any Hong Kong protest lies the question of identity. Pro-democracy and anti-extradition protesters often use elements of local culture, like language and humour, to distinguish the city from mainland China...

Online groups have offered emotional support to protesters after four people linked to the campaign against the extradition bill died. Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung, meanwhile, expressed sorrow on Friday over the incidents. The...

By Yan Zhao and Catherine Lai Held aloft above a sea of protesters marching through the heart of Hong Kong, the hand-written cardboard sign made an unusual demand: “Stop using baton or we sing Hallelujah to the Lord”...

The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) has condemned the obstruction of journalists at work after a TVB cameraman was driven away by anti-extradition law protesters over alleged bias in the station’s coverage. The...

The popularity of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive has plunged to a historic low, according to a regular University of Hong Kong (HKU) survey released on Tuesday. The city’s leader Carrie Lam scored 32.8 marks...

Every day after the first march against the government’s extradition bill on June 9, there was a group of Christians singing and praying outside the Legislative Council building. What were they praying for and what has it...

Are you a social entrepreneur dedicated to giving back to the community? Learn all about how to maximise your impact at the Social Enterprise Showcase next Tuesday. HKFP is a media partner. The event will consist of interactive...

By Rustem Shir, Research Associate with the Uyghur Human Rights Project Of the 7,111 languages being spoken around the world, 41 per cent can be classified as endangered, meaning that face-to-face use by speakers across...

Hong Kong social media lit up on Friday when protesters noticed Google’s translation software was briefly churning out a rather odd suggestion during a week that has seen the worst political violence to hit the city in...

By Regina Chen, Charleen Chen and Iris Yeung. Jacqueline Wang, a 20-year-old Chinese student who studies in the United Kingdom, travelled to Hong Kong earlier this year. High expectation of her Hong Kong visit turned out to be...

Groups across the world gathered on Tuesday to commemorate 30 years since the Tiananmen crackdown in a series of poignant spectacles. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed on June 4 1989, as the military ended months of...

The principal of a Hong Kong secondary school has asked the police to intervene after finding out someone made him a signatory to a student-backed petition opposing the government’s extradition bill. The head of Po Leung...

Hundreds of petitions have appeared over recent days in opposition to the Hong Kong government’s controversial extradition bill, attracting thousands of signatories from Hong Kong and overseas. The bill – which would...

Hong Kong’s second-richest man Lee Shau Kee stepped down as chairman of Henderson Land Development on Tuesday, the latest of the city’s golden generation of billionaires to retire as their progenies take over. The...

Hong Kongers are being told a fairy tale about an imaginary land called Lantau Tomorrow Vision that will magically resolve our housing problems and transform the economy to boot. The handsome prince: the government. The princess...

Global photography movement the 24HourProject is coming to Hong Kong on Saturday, with a special focus on women’s rights. Founded by photographers Renzo Grande and Sam Smotherman in 2012, the project has since ballooned...

Environmental activist Wong Wai-kin has become the first Hongkonger to climb Mount Lhotse, the fourth-highest mountain in the world. Wong, 47, reached the 8,516-metre high peak on Tuesday at around 7.45am and unfurled a yellow...

by Catherine Lai Shady middle-men are openly advertising on Chinese social media to smuggle blood samples of pregnant women to Hong Kong to skirt the mainland’s ban on gender testing, an AFP investigation has found. The...

US architect I.M. Pei, known for his distinct modern style of bold lines and unique structures, died last week in New York, aged 102. Embed from Getty Images The China-born mastermind was behind Hong Kong’s iconic Bank of...

Thien-Ty Ly is a French photographer of Chinese descent. Ly has shared with HKFP his Hong Kong photography series Hongkongers Daily. The series is being exhibited at Chez Trente from 24 may to 23 June as part of Hong Kong...

The Hong Kong government is looking to set up a deputy director position at Hong Kong’s public broadcaster RTHK, which it said will be responsible for administrative work and development. RTHK was the target of a critical...

He awoke in the lobby of One Island East in Tai Koo, foggy and disorientated. It was 6am, and he had no recollection of how he got there. The British businessman was surrounded by police, later finding himself accused of...

Lisa Ross is a New York-based photographer, video artist and educator. Her latest body of work I Can’t Sleep: Homage to a Uyghur Homeland, features a series of group portraits of women and children on their beds, outdoors...

The government has a congenital fear of establishing a social safety net that prioritizes helping people in need. So it has come up with all manner of cockamamie schemes that have been widely shunned by the people who are...

China is waging a global propaganda war in an attempt to silence overseas critics, while it has unleashed the most repressive crackdown on internal dissent since the Tiananmen Square massacre 30 years ago. Footsoldiers in this...

The mother of a Chinese student admitted on Friday she paid US$6.5 million to the man at the heart of a US college admission scandal but said she was duped into believing the sum was a charitable donation. American academia has...

Hong Kong’s education minister has said there is no need for a new law to help special education needs (SEN) students, dismissing a member’s bill proposed by two lawmakers. At a Legislative Council meeting on Friday...

Thousands of beleaguered Hong Kong workers took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the city’s annual Labour Day march, demanding a living wage and limiting weekly working hours to 44. The march was organised by the pro...

Sun Hung Kai Properties (SHKP) paid HK$3.15 million and offered land to representatives of Shan Pui Tsuen to counter opposition to its Yuen Long development in the 1990s. FactWire received an anonymous complaint claiming SHKP...

In his “On Balance” column this week, South China Morning Post columnist Robert Delaney writes that, in the context of growing tensions with the United States, China is “moving from its standard emotional appeals and towards...

Best known locally for his photography series “Architecture of Density,” Michael Wolf passed away last week on Cheung Chau aged 64. The award-winning German photographer was also behind a series entitled Big City, Small Gods...

In partnership with WMA. In Hong Kong, opportunities abound for the fortunate few. The global trading hub is home to over 7.5 million residents of mixed nationalities and boasts a blossoming free market economy, despite a recent...

Leo Goodstadt’s latest book, A City Mismanaged, makes few concessions to those of us who read for entertainment. But it is worth a visit if you really want to know what went wrong with post-handover Hong Kong. Future historians...

By Emilie Lui, Cynthia Sit and Erica Li Four months ago, Fredaley, an ordinary housewife, left her home in the Philippines and came to Hong Kong alone. Barely able to speak a word in Cantonese, she had no experience working as a...

By Oiwan Lam A new video promoting the German camera company Leica has caused an uproar on the Chinese internet, resulting in a ban on the video and its derivatives. Produced by Leica’s ad agency F/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, a...

Award-winning German photographer Michael Wolf passed away this week on Cheung Chau aged 64. HKFP shares his series on the city’s disappearing corner houses, courtesy of Blue Lotus Gallery. Following on from Architecture of...

Community activists have renewed calls for a cap on mainland tourists after a 62-year-old woman was killed in a coach accident on Sunday. The incident marked the fifth time in two years where a tour bus caused a fatality, said...

by Eva Xiao Sitting lotus-style on an apartment floor, two women quietly rotate their arms in front of them — a rare sight in China where public displays of Falun Gong meditation have all but disappeared. It is a shadow of...

Hong Kong-native Jess Yu has been taking photographs professionally since 2007, having trained in the art during an exchange programme at a university in Shanghai, China. She also graduated from a university in Hong Kong...

By Regina Chen, Hayley Wong, Iris Yeung “It was the biggest sin that I’ve ever made,” says Mubina Jabeen, a 21-year-old student at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The “sin” she committed was eating a pineapple bun made...

It’s a sunny day in the outskirts of Tuen Mun when a group of white-haired ladies gather under the arches of a primary school. What they had promised was a kung fu performance. Expectations abound of grannies leaping in the air...

Cross-border families from mainland China often receive inaccurate information about Hong Kong’s education and migration policies, according to a study from the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)’s Department of...

By Bonita Wong, Wayne Chang, Sarah Poon Western medicine has always been a core element of Hong Kong’s public medical system. But with the launch of the city’s first Chinese medicine hospital, a change of government’s attitude...

By Elizabeth Law As farmer Li Bingcai opened the door to his cockroach farm in southwest China, an insect the size of a dart flew into his face. Picking the critter off his forehead, he tossed it back into the dark room where...

By Laurissa Liu, Tommy Yuen No fancy outfit. No heavy make up. She looks plain. Yet, she fills a whole lecture hall with laughter and applause when she tells her wonderful stories on stage. Ng Ting-ting, 36, also known as Mary...

The average waiting time for public housing in Hong Kong is expected to rise to over six years before 2022, according to a think tank led by former chief executive Tung Chee-hwa. In a new report on housing issues, the pro...

Tech giant Foxconn’s boss Terry Gou said Wednesday a goddess had told him to run in Taiwan’s presidential election. Gou dropped a bombshell on the island’s political landscape when he hinted Tuesday that he was...

Remarkably, here we are well into a 21st century of unprecedented global connectedness and intercultural exchange and, for at least two omnipresent, billion-dollar Western companies, chopsticks remain the comic symbol of all...

Uighur rights groups have felt the brunt of a coordinated pro-China “cyber-abuse” campaign that has taken aim at their social media feeds, with some Facebook posts receiving over 3,000 comments denouncing Xinjiang...

By Abhaya Srivastava The Dalai Lama left a New Delhi hospital on Friday after three days of treatment for a chest infection, but the 83-year-old will need several days of rest before returning to his Himalayan base, his spokesman...

China is planning to send millions of youth “volunteers” back to the villages, raising fears of a return to the methods of Chairman Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution of 50 years ago. The Communist Youth League...

A member of a campaign group to remove an anti-harassment policy at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) Hong Kong is running for the press club’s Board of Governors. William Giles, a partner of law firm Hart &...

The Dalai Lama has been admitted to hospital in New Delhi for treatment but is “doing much better” and should be released soon, his close aide told AFP on Wednesday. “His Holiness is doing much better, but he is...

I keep putting off writing about Global Warming. It’s too big a topic for a journalist. One feels like a pavement artist suddenly recruited to redecorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. My professional education included the...

Tam Chun-yin was busy on a recent Monday afternoon assisting residents of a Tuen Mun public housing estate to fill in the forms which will enable them to claim a HK$4,000 cash handout from the government. The cash would help...

By Igor Vojnovic, Michigan State University and Minting Ye, Michigan State University Gentrification is reshaping urban areas all around the world, displacing large segments of the population and making cities increasingly...

By Yaqiu Wang “The whole world is waiting for you to come back. ‘Hold fast to freedom in the wind and rain,’” wrote Zheng Churan in a postcard to her husband, Wei Zhili, a labour activist detained in March by authorities in the...

The Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) is standing its ground on a new anti-harassment policy after a group of members launched a website and petition to “preserve free speech” at the press club. The policy...

In partnership with Liber Research Community. When, in November 1986, property tycoon Gordon Wu proposed building an artificial island in Hong Kong’s central waters, the then-colonial government vetoed the idea as too...

By Kelly Wang Fed up with the drudgery of his sales job in southern China, Lu Qi quit and travelled a thousand kilometres north to one of the country’s biggest film studios with hopes of making it in movies. That dream...

The new documentary on Michael Jackson’s history of child abuse has resurrected an old head-scratcher. Popular is a stingy adjective to describe Jackson’s history-making music and expansive influence in the entertainment world...

A toilet. A torture chamber. A teleportation booth. These are some of the repurposing proposals for Hong Kong’s 2,900 indoor and outdoor public payphone booths. Local authorities have given the green light to NGO Designing...

Ricky Chu, a former anti-graft agency director of investigation, has been appointed as the chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) for a three-year term from April 11. He will succeed incumbent chair Alfred Chan. Chu...

Want to know how to tackle the fashion industry’s biggest problem – waste? Look no further than social entrepreneur Christina Dean, founder of Redress and The R Collective, who is set to deliver an exclusive talk on...

by Eva Xiao and Elizabeth Law A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in eastern China on Thursday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens as it knocked down factory buildings, damaged homes and sent a huge plume of...

‘Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ This statement usually applies to states ruled by corrupt dictators, but as the recent scandal of TWGHs Leo Tung-hai Lee Primary School unfolds, it seems to be...

Li Xueqin, arguably China’s most important archaeologist, early China historian and interpreter of oracle bones’ writings, died in Beijing on February 24. He was 85, and his health had been frail for a number of years. I met him...

Canadian photographer Lucan Coutts left Toronto for Hong Kong in 2017 and has been enamoured of the city ever since. “Hong Kong’s run-and-gun culture was obviously a standout characteristic, so I tried to capture that theme...

By Adam Hughes Today, thousands of students across the world will be standing up and making their voices heard about an issue that is of critical importance to their generation. This is something that all of us who work in...

Hong Kong students have urged the authorities to include youth representatives in environmental bodies, ahead of a school walkout on Friday to protest government inaction over climate change. In a statement published on...

St. Paul’s Secondary School has apologised for an incident last month whereby they called the police over a group of Form 6 students taking photos on their last day of school. Students at the Happy Valley school were taking...

What is the nature of a university? Since the times of the great Prussian educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt it has been regarded as a community of scholars and students who on a basis of freedom and equality pursue...

Hong Kong Polytechnic University is guilty of “systemic unfairness” and should reverse the penalties imposed on four student protesters, supporters at a campus rally said on Thursday. The student union organisers said...

A pro-democracy lawmaker has asked for closer scrutiny on properties held by Beijing’s office in Hong Kong after a report suggested that some flats had been improperly rented out. Sai Wan’s China Liaison Office is...

Hong Kong Polytechnic University has faced mounting criticism after punishing four students for taking part in a protest related to the campus bulletin board. Nineteen student organisations issued a joint statement condemning the...

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua published an English-language rap video on Monday promoting the country’s “two sessions” – an annual meeting of China’s top lawmakers and political advisers. The music...

Two people have died and 16 were injured after a bus rear-ended a lorry which had stopped on the West Kowloon Highway. At around 10:22 am on Monday, Citybus no. 967 bound for Hong Kong Island crashed into a mid-sized lorry on the...

The plunging circulation and financial woes of Hong Kong’s news media organisations are hardly big news but, understandably, even less coverage is given to the efforts of mainstream media outlets trying to obscure details of this...

In partnership with Les Beatitudes. As Chan Chuen-foon guides viewers around a community gallery exhibition in Sham Shui Po, she stops at a framed piece. “This one,” she beams, pointing to a pea green clutch bag with two...

The website of a grassroots news organisation reporting on global labour issues has been blocked in the mainland, but its Hong Kong-based staff have vowed to keep China in their sights. Worker News issued a post on Thursday...

I was passing the north face of the Central Market in Des Voeux Road the other day when I noticed a new set of signs had appeared on the wall outside the public toilet. One of these was clearly modelled on a road sign: a red ring...

Hong Kong Polytechnic University has punished four students for a protest over a student union “free speech” bulletin board. The school said they misbehaved by assaulting school staff, refusing to comply with orders...

Students concerned about climate change are set to rally at Chater Garden in Central in two weeks, after police granted organisers a letter of no objection. The class boycott, led by young people, is part of a global...

Secretary for Labour and Welfare Law Chi-kwong has said that the government’s plans to purchase property for new welfare facilities are not aimed at benefitting the private sector. The annual budget issued on Wednesday...

The Hong Kong government has announced one-off measures such as tax and rates reductions, as well as extra allowances for the elderly and poor. The annual budget issued by Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday stated that...

Financial Secretary Paul Chan has proposed allocating HK$20 billion for the purchase of 60 private properties to accommodate over 130 new welfare facilities. The facilities will include day child care centres, neighbourhood...

Thank you for joining us as we cover the 2019 Hong Kong budget. Follow HKFP on Facebook or Twitter. Our live blog has ended. Here are HKFP’s 2019 budget stories: Tax cuts but fewer one-off sweeteners, as surplus set to drop...

The Hong Kong government has announced that export controls on baby milk formula will remain in place as parallel trading activity persists. The policy was implemented in March 2013 following protests over the mass purchase of...

A Taiwanese Students’ Association promotional stall at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology was vandalised last week, with a Republic of China flag torn down and replaced with the Five-starred Red Flag of mainland...

All students are responsible for: …supporting an environment free from harassment, intimidation, discrimination, assault, and Sexual Violence; …treating others in a way that does not harm them physically and/or threaten or...

Hong Kong activists have launched a petition urging a primary school to apologise over controversial reports that its students are punished for speaking Cantonese. Earlier this month, broadcaster i-Cable spoke to students of...

by Pak Yiu Blacksmith Wang De flings a ladle of molten steel against a cold brick wall, sparking a spectacle of white-hot light in the night sky and keeping alive the flame of a centuries-old Lunar New Year tradition. Fireworks...

By Erin Hale When German broadcaster Deutsche Welle announced it was opening its Greater China bureau in Taipei, it was met with considerable enthusiasm by journalists and China watchers. The choice to set up shop in Taiwan over...

The government has accepted suggestions from its Task Force on Land Supply, including a plan to take back 32 hectares of Fanling golf course in 2023 for public housing. Secretary for Development Michael Wong said at a press...

Hong Kong’s population increased by 69,000 in 2018, representing a 0.9 per cent rise from the year before. The majority of the increase was made up of one-way permit holders from mainland China. The provisional estimate of...

by Victoria Wisniewski Otero Merriam-Webster dictionary declared “justice” to be their 2018 word of the year; data showed that it was looked up online 74% more than the year before based on their website traffic. As people search...

Chinese authorities on Monday defended a ban on schoolchildren attending informal Tibetan language classes taught by Buddhist monks in western China, as religious and cultural freedoms in the country come under increasing...

British schools and universities should suspend further partnerships with China’s Confucius Institutes until a review is completed, the country’s Conservative Party Human Rights Commission has suggested. In a new...

An environmental group has said that huge numbers of paper cups were discarded at Sunday’s Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, as runners were informed too late about cup refill locations. This year, race organisers...

It’s a dusky afternoon in Kwai Hing when a group of middle-aged women gather in the local government offices for choir practice. The activity releases participants from the domestic pressures they are saddled with on a daily...

by Catherine Lai Sitting in the spacious courtyard of an 18th-century ancestral hall belonging to his clan, William Liu defiantly rejects a lucrative birthright that his special status as one of Hong Kong’s male indigenous...

By HoLok Chen [Warning: this story includes graphic descriptions of death and violence. A version of this story was previously published on Medium.] Yau Ma Tei is a popular night market district where people go to enjoy shopping...

Customers have accused a company offering subscription services to Hong Kong gyms of hiking their rates without warning. Fitness startup ClassPass has defended its price adjustment, however, saying members were given advance...

Peter Moss, a former assistant director of Hong Kong’s colonial Government Information Services department, has died in the Philippines aged 83. Moss, who led government staff and foreign journalists in filming the 1967...

Soaring demand for durians in China is being blamed for a new wave of deforestation in Malaysia with environmentalists warning vast amounts of jungle is being cleared to make way for massive plantations of the spiky, pungent...

In partnership with Trailwatch. Above the jagged skyline of Hong Kong, the silhouette of a mountain range looms large. Its ridges are home to any number of hiking trails that make the din of the city seems like a distant memory...

The aftermath was almost as traumatic as the incident itself. After Miu was sexually assaulted, she spent 13 long hours with emergency services. A social worker from local sexual violence crisis centre RainLily had accompanied...

By Jerome Taylor and David Stout A pair of his father’s old tandoor ovens helped Hong Kong restaurateur Asim Hussain achieve a dream — the world’s first Michelin star for a Pakistani restaurant, an accolade he...

Central’s famous Lin Heung Tea House is set to close its doors at the end of February after its landlord failed to renew the lease. The 22-year-old tea house is frequently listed in global travel guides’ top...

An archival street photography series “Portraits of Hong Kong” delves into the collection of the late Shanghai-born photographer Fan Ho. The series, posthumously published with the help of his family and Sarah Greene...

Foreign consulates in Hong Kong have wished residents a happy Year of the Pig in a series of Cantonese-language video clips. French Consul General Alexandre Giorgini said it was his first Lunar New Year in Hong Kong, as he...

A population policy concern group staged a protest at a Tuen Mun bus stop on Sunday where mainland tourists often gather to return to Shenzhen. Population Policy Concern Group demonstrators urged tourists not to visit Hong Kong...

“All kinds of Gods are accepted and welcomed here.” As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Marcus Wang meets Wong Wing-bon – guardian to over 10,000 abandoned deities, collected over two decades. Where do the...

A Rodrigo Duterte impersonator sparked frenzy and confusion during Sunday mass when he walked into a Hong Kong church popular with the city’s Filipino community. Accompanied by Howard X — the Hong Kong-based...

A bishop from China’s “underground” Catholic church is slated to step up as the official state-backed clergyman for a diocese in central China, state-run media reported, amid a thaw in relations between Beijing...

Hong Kong received a record-breaking 65.1 million tourists last year, of whom almost 80 per cent were visitors from mainland China. The city’s Tourism Board said on Thursday that the influx of mainland tourists was linked...

The Consumer Council says the number of complaints over vaccinations increased 3.5 times last year, compared to 2017. Of the 2,462 complaints received in relation to medical services, 2,207 were vaccination-related. Of those...

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) student union says it is concerned over the growing number of unauthorised tourists visiting the campus. Large numbers of visitors in uniformed groups have been coming to the campus on...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said she will remember to be humble, following a recent controversy over elderly welfare. The government has increased the eligibility age for elderly Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA)...

Hong Kong’s nursing sector lawmaker has asked the Hospital Authority to lay out a clear plan for how it expects to spend the extra HK$500 million in funds it has been promised by the government, in order to prevent problems...

A public hospital doctor has urged the Hospital Authority to stop asking medical professionals to attend courses on national affairs in the mainland whilst the winter flu surge overwhelms local facilities. Alfred Wong Yam-hong...

The government has announced it will suspend a HK$200 penalty – imposed upon welfare recipients aged between 60 and 64 – if they fail to seek employment. From Friday, the eligibility age for elderly Comprehensive...

In the heart of Wan Chai sits an unremarkable playground flanked by towering high-rises and a set of low-hanging LED signs beckoning bar revellers. The hum of the metropolis can be heard under the sound of basketballs bouncing...

Recently, the Hong Kong government announced its endorsement of the latest minimum wage increase from HK$34.50 to HK$37.50, set to increase in May 2019. Touted as the biggest increase yet to the city’s minimum wage, this amount...

A local district concern group will march on Saturday in protest of an ongoing tourist influx around Kowloon City. KC Mainland Tourists Concern, comprised of community campaigners working in the area, will lead the march...

Eight students from a secondary school in Ma On Shan were arrested on Thursday after a video surfaced online of a student being assaulted. The 38-second clip, which was posted on Facebook, showed a male student being trapped...

The government has announced that kindergartens and child care centres will enter the Lunar New Year holidays early as flu season bears down on the city. Term will now finish this Saturday. The Centre for Health Protection said...

The government announced on Wednesday that it will scrap the requirement for proof of address in its HK$4,000 cash handout plan. It also said that applicants who failed to put sufficient postage on their application envelopes...

Microsoft was investigating a disruption in its Bing search engine in China on Thursday, with social media users fearing it could be the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors. Attempts to open cn.bing.com has resulted...

Conservationists have criticised wildlife NGO WWF Hong Kong over its plan to redevelop a visitor building at Mai Po Nature Reserve, citing poor environmental practices. The NGO said in 2017 that its Peter Scott Field Studies...

The proposed cabinet of the University of Hong Kong Student Union has sparked controversy owing to their pro-Beijing political stance. The three-person team, called “Prism,” told a public consultation with students on...

Over half of Hong Kong students are unaware of their university’s anti-sexual harassment policy, an Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) study has found. In an online poll of 14,442 students across nine universities, 55.6...

The police have arrested a cleaner working at the Mira Hong Kong hotel, after a woman was killed by a falling window on Monday morning. The female cleaner was arrested under section 4B of the Summary Offences Ordinance upon...

A woman struck by a falling window in Tsim Sha Tsui on Monday morning has died after being rushed to nearby Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Update: Police arrest hotel cleaner after tourist killed by falling window in Tsim Sha Tsui...

By Oiwan Lam Two Chinese internet users are currently facing punishment for doing what an estimated 1-3% of people living in mainland China do every day: access the global internet. Among other methods, many internet users in...

by Lianchao Lan Wearing a bright floral ensemble with her short hair dyed blonde, Chinese model Ma Yinhong struts a Shanghai catwalk with a style and swagger that belie her 56 years. She made her modelling debut just two years...

by Pak Yiu and Amanda Peng In public squares across China, it is not unusual to see retirees practising dance, tai chi, or even singing. Wang Jinxiang is no different — except she livestreams her performances to an...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced a concessionary measure whereby it will give extra financial support to elderly people between 60 and 64, following an outcry from lawmakers over cuts. The new measure followed a...

City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has removed the term “national” from the name of a sister university in Taiwan, in sports-related announcements published on its website. The school’s teachers and students...

There was once a mini-scandal in the rock music world over the unreasonable demands that some bands were making of promoters. A shining example, it was believed, was provided by the band Van Halen, who stipulated that there...

Livehouse This Town Needs has condemned instances of sexual harassment that occurred at a concert it hosted by While She Sleeps. The English metalcore band was performing at the music venue in Yau Tong on Monday, where the...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam has said that she will try to be “more diplomatic” when making comments following a controversy last week. The government upped the age threshold for elderly financial support, with Lam...

The government has launched a public consultation into whether it should enforce a cooling-off period for consumer contracts for beauty and fitness services of HK$3,000. In the three-month-long consultation, the government...

A pro-democracy lawmaker has said that Hong Kong authorities should extend the notice period for marriage in order to help investigate cases of suspected fraud. Lawmaker Gary Fan of the Neo Democrats party said on Monday that...

A few days ago, Mr Chua Lam, long-time author of a number of Chinese cookbooks and TV-host of Chinese cuisine appreciation shows, made the astounding remark that “hotpot is a cultureless form of food, and it should disappear.” Mr...

Accessibility has become a less obscure concept in recent years, but in a report released two months ago the Audit Commission laid bare the continued inadequacy of barrier-free facilities on Government premises. It criticised the...

A translation scholar has cancelled plans for her book to be published after she refused the Hong Kong publisher’s request to edit politically sensitive contents. Dr Uganda Kwan Sze-pui, originally from Hong Kong, was set...

Secretary for Education Kevin Yeung has denied there was any interference from the mainland over a new requirement in the upcoming national anthem law under which educators will be forced to teach the national anthem to primary...

Lawmakers across the political spectrum have forcefully rejected Chief Executive Carrie Lam’s claim that they had approved her plan to raise the age threshold for elderly financial support from 60 to 65. Lam defended her...

A lawmaker has said the government should consider introducing natural predators of wild pigs to help control the population. Predators of boars include tigers, dogs, panthers, wolves and large raptors. Kenneth Lau, representing...

Chief Executive Carrie Lam said on Thursday that the decision to raise the entry age threshold for financial elderly support had the blessing of the legislature and that she would not consider delaying its implementation. At the...

The government should propose a law criminalising “threatening, abusive or insulting communication” towards bus drivers at work, an independent review committee has suggested. The committee’s report came after it launched...

One person has been killed and 23 rescued after a 17,000-ton oil and chemical tanker caught fire off Lamma Island on Tuesday. Four people were injured and one was found dead at the scene, a police spokesperson told HKFP. The...

Swedish activist Peter Dahlin has filed a complaint with the British telecommunications regulator against Chinese state media China Central Television (CCTV) for allegedly contravening the broadcasting code and violating...

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has defended the decision to raise the lower age limit for elderly financial support from 60 to 65, saying that the move is “reflecting reality.” On Monday, the government...

Former Hong Kong bishop John Tong has been appointed as acting head of the city’s Catholic Church, a rare move following the death of the incumbent bishop. 79-year-old Cardinal Tong, who was head of the Hong Kong...

Just when you thought it might just be possible to have a scintilla of sympathy for those rich folks at the Fanling golf course their representatives come up with a compelling reminder of why so many people think it would be a...

Dictionary Merriam-Webster chose “justice” as the word of the year 2018, saying it was the website’s top lookup of the year. With this news, we should reflect on how justice has materialized for women in Asia, especially those...

By Peter Stebbings & Kelly Wang Leather riding boots are neatly lined up on a carpet, a picture shows blood-thirsty hounds on a fox hunt and a fountain spews water from the mouths of stone horses. It may have the trappings of...

By Sarah Poon and Catherine Chiang More than 290 organisations, including some of the world’s biggest packaging producers and leading consumer brands such as Coke, Pepsi, Nestle and Kellogg plus retailers and recyclers...

The government has proposed to significantly reduce the number of seats of the Hong Kong Stadium and add an additional running track alongside other facilities so as to turn it into a community sports ground. The Wan Chai...

One out of three Hongkongers would emigrate if they had the chance, according to a Chinese University of Hong Kong survey. The university’s Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies said that compared to a similar survey...

Bishop Michael Yeung, the head of Hong Kong’s Catholic church, has died at the age of 73. He was hospitalised last week and died on Thursday. Yeung was admitted to Canossa (Caritas) Hospital on December 27 to treat...

Hong Kong Bishop Michael Yeung of the Catholic Church has been hospitalised for liver failure and is in stable condition. He was taken to Canossa Hospital last week. He was visited by top church officials, including former...

Hong Kong business will be harmed if the government takes back Fanling golf course for housing development, said the convener of a group of golf players, calling the proposal “absurd.” A partial development of the...

By Iris Yeung and Eric Park Kat Wu, a student at the Chinese International School, wore a floral embroidered black dress at her Year 11 graduation prom two years ago. Her dress was just as glamorous as any of the others but there...

Every evening, around 30 fortunetellers run stalls around Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei. As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Marcus Wong speaks to tarot augur Mary Li about how young people still visit her for reassurance and...

Bobbie Poulton grew up surrounded by horses on a rather remote farm in the English countryside bordering Wales. Learning to ride before she could walk, she became involved in competitive shows from an early age, through which she...

I recently visited North District Hospital and saw a sign that struck me for its absurdity. A 29-month wait for an ultrasound, a 29-month wait for a mammogram, a 23-month wait for a CT scan and a 17-month wait for an MRI. On the...

By Jasper Cao, Sam Kwong and Brian Yu A large part of the old Kai Tak Airport runway is still overwhelmed by tonnes of trees knocked down when Super Typhoon Mangkhut, the strongest storm on record, lashed the city in mid...

Long-associated with the underworld and masculinity, a growing number of Hong Kong women are shaking off the taboos and embracing tattoos. As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Elise Xia speaks to Cara Wong about the new trend...

It has a been another rollercoaster year for Hong Kong. Lawmakers have been disqualified, freedom of expression has come under fire and on a lighter note, a fleet of fluffy toy pigs have been deployed to help prepare the...

By Jasmine Ling, Valerie Wan and Marilyn Ma Built in 1951, PMQ, the former Police Married Quarters on Hollywood Road, is now a Hong Kong creative industry landmark. Back in the 19th century, the site was the original home of the...

As 2018 draws to a close, over 200 Discovery Bay families living aboard boats are facing eviction. The Marina Club told members in August that their berthing rights would be terminated as the facility is to be renovated. As part...

While unpacking boxes in our new home a few days ago, I came across two folded up pieces of cloth. They were traditional Chinese baby slings – a square piece of cloth with a long cotton strip attached to each corner. One, made of...

As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Eleanor Huang speaks to two young Hongkongers who have taken up pole dancing as a fitness hobby. But whilst it has gained acceptance outside the strip club, it hasn’t stopped the slut...

by Selim Chtayti Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself video app — often to their dismay. The social...

By Johanna Chan, Scarlet Shiu and Grace Liyang Village house owner Newman Lau Man-choi, who is also the president of Sheung Yeung Village Affairs Committee in Clear Water Bay, is finally planning to install solar panels at his...

As part of our Hong Kong Humans series, Ruixue Zhang meets Yinfeng Liang – a face threading artisan in Tuen Mun. Before Liang married and moved to Hong Kong, she ran a barbershop in China. But although there is still demand...

Minnie Li sat down one evening in November last year to write – not an academic paper, as she often does as a lecturer, but something personal. “He became more aggressive after the first time he was rejected by me,” she...

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